A great day's work yesterday in Navan by both the masters teams in a very competitive race. The over thirty five team of Padraig ,Turlough and Joe who also took home the bronze medal in the over forty five category after a great run performed brilliantly to come in third team only 8 seconds behind North Laois with Tallaght winning the title. Owen, Brenden, John F, Rory and Derek also had good runs on a hard two lap course. The over fifty team of Sean, John Mc H, Adrian who was running his first race in this new category took home the silver medal behind Tullamore with Mayo AC in third. Terry and Eoin also run very well.

It was yet another great day for the ladies who displayed excellent performances in both individual and team medals. A two lap course with 300 competitors saw the Rathfarnham ladies displaying their true colours.Caitriona Jennings continued her outstanding elite race form of late to finish in second place overall ahead of Pauline Curley with another pb in a time of 35.24. Donna Mahon also put in a super display with another fantastic pb of 36.56 despite having a chest infection. Donna secured a silver medal in the individual masters 0/35. The masters team of Donna Mahon, Aoife O Connor and Helen Leonard also won silver just behind Tullamore Harriers AC. Well done also to our Senior team of Caitriona Jennings, Vanessa Sallier, Zoe Melling and Tracy Jennings who were unlucky to miss out on a team medal each performed well today.

More pictures are available on racepix365.com, inluding some great Rathfarnham team shots - thanks to Dave Bradshaw for these.

Next Weekend on Monday the 4th of May the Leinster Senior, Novice and Masters Road Race will take place in Co Kilkenny, this will be another prime opportunity for the Rathfarnham ladies to take home some medals. Please confirm if you are available to race.

The Senior Mens team finished in a frustrating fourth position on Sunday at the National Road Relays. Raheny Shamrocks dominated from the beginning of the race, with Mark Kirwan getting the team an early lead. James King ran the first two mile leg for the Senior team and passed over to Michael Freeley who ran the mile leg in a time of 4.44. Barry Minnock ran a stong three mile leg, in 14.55 and passed on to the experienced Paul Fleming, the anchor man for many years. Paul ran a great race to get the team into fourth place, getting ahead of Clonliffe and Raheny B.

In the mens B team, Peter OFarrell had a good run to finish the 2 miles in 10.16 and onto Brian ODonoghue who did the mile in 4.54, Kevin Keane ran a solid three miles, mainly on his own in 16.10 and Jonathon Hughes brought the B team home in 13th place with a 10.41 two miles. In the C team, Derek Furness, Owen McLoughlin, Ian Ingram and Mark Scanlan finished in 23rd place.

The Mens Masters team also finished in a frustrating fourth place, with Owen McLoughlin, Padgraig MacCriostail and Brendan Hogan making up the A team, the race was won by Tallaght ac. The Mens Masters (O50) team of Eoin Murray, Terry Clarke and PJ Claffey were also fourth.

Congratulations to our Masters Women's team of Aoife O'Connor, Donna Mahon and Helen Leonard, who won silver in the National Road Relays in Raheny yesterday, narrowly missing out on gold due to a misunderstanding over the location of the finish line.

Well done also to the 11 teams and 33 athletes who represented the club, in an exciting and highly competitive afternoon which saw several outstanding individual performances.

Caitriona Jennings put in an outstanding performance over the Easter weekend finishing in 3rd position in the New York Homecoming 10km. Caitriona completed the 10km course with a PB of 35.42 this puts Caitriona in super shape for next weekend's National Road Relays in Raheny.